Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984

Summary

'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward Said

Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner. He also explores a number of avant-garde authors who challenge our traditional notions of humanism, extends his theories on power relations and looks back over the whole of his extraordinary 'critical history of thought'.

Edited by James D. Faubion
Translated by Robert Hurley and Others

About the author

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in postwar France. Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
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